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Newspaper
Springfield Leader
Location
Springfield, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1956
Page
2
Garden notes discuss steady production through planning and staggered plantings. It covers timing for earliest blooms and salads, pest control with seed stores’ guidance, and the use of supports like rings hoops chicken wire and stakes to keep plants upright. It emphasizes early support for tall and climbing plants and keeping tools sharp for easier cultivation.
Canadian Press reports Klaus the Crow from the Rasmussen family in Winnipeg is missing. The versatile bird sang How Much Is That Doggie in the Window and danced to radio music, but caused mischief at home and with neighbors. Mrs Rasmussen, who came from Denmark, recalls his antics and the crow’s bold behavior as she searches the suburb near St James school.
A lighthearted digest notes diverse items from 1950s life. Fresh mess hall audio aims to drown chomping sounds as readers encounter quirky questions about sales tax, travel, theft, and a kleptomaniac who always returns to the same shop for bargains.
Mrs. Sybil Wallace fractured her hip after stepping into her mother Mrs. T B Wood’s Bryan Texas home. Mrs. Wood and daughter Mrs. Clara Wallace assisted to a hospital where Mrs. Wood sprained an ankle and Mrs. Clara Wallace broke her wrist.
George W. Cornell reports a shift inside churches as furnishings improve comfort and acoustics. Protestant and Catholic spaces converge in decor while ritualistic styles trim excess statues and favor simpler settings, reflecting evolving tastes.
Couchgrass can be almost eliminated in one year with precise fall plowing followed by repeated shallow disc and cultivator passes as moisture allows. Nine to ten cultivations, proper timing, and some post harvest chemical senescence are advised, plus follow up to kill surviving roots. The text also covers church building trends and interior revamps.
Pattern No 107 transfers an iron on design to wood or painted surfaces with an illustrated guide. The three drawer chest uses white pine and 44 inch plywood, with drawers attached from inside. Pattern 282 and a Bedroom Furniture Packet also offered for mail order from Vancouver BC.
This ad promotes a tissue pattern for Misses sizes 12 to 20 with iron-on transfers in pink and green. It instructs sending twenty five cents by coin to obtain pattern 7309 and to request the Alice Brooks Needlecraft Catalogue featuring knitting crochet embroidery iron ons toys and more.
Mrs Joyce Wood of Salem Oregon wife of a local dentist has created a worm vending machine to sell angleworms and larger night crawlers in cans at strategic town locations for fishermen. Safe driving pays off.
Durable, easy to sew pattern 4722 offers a long torso sundress with a clever collar et te. Size 16 requires 4 yards of 35 inch fabric and 7 5 yards for the collarette. Includes complete illustrated instructions and fit tested guidance. Send 35 cents to Household Arts Department in Toronto with size name address and style number.
Euclide Herse a 16 year old from Edenwold loses most of his sight to retinal haemorrhage just before Christmas. He adapts quickly entering Braille and typewriting courses at Nash Home for the Blind Regina with guidance from Miss Lucille Savoie. Government Correspondence School provides Grade X lessons and teachers read for him. Tape recordings and the Braille Writer speed his note taking while prohibited activities limit physical strain. He remains active with radio and handicrafts as he prepares for possible entry to the School for the Blind after summer holidays.
In 1849 Austrian forces released small bombs carried by balloons drifting over Venice, causing minimal damage while marking an early use of aerial bombing in warfare.
Marlin Perkins, director of Zoo Parade and Lincoln Park Zoo, suggests supersonic sound barriers could confine animals without iron bars. He notes birds already stay put due to light differences, and says sound could deter large animals unseen by humans.
A detailed bread making procedure describes scalding milk with sugar and salt, cooling, proofing yeast in warm water, combining with milk, egg, lemon rind and flour, kneading until smooth, rising, rolling into a long sheet, topping with brown sugar honey and walnuts, shaping into a ring pan, brushing with butter, rising again and baking at 375 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes with a honey walnut finish.
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